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Maddy: police 'know who took her'

Police have produced a drawing of a suspect thought to have abducted three-year-old Madeleine McCann as she slept in a Portuguese holiday apartment.

Detectives believe Madeleine was taken by someone who may have stalked her family during their holiday on the Algarve. They are working on the assumption that she is still alive and are concentrating their search within two or three miles of where she was taken.

Guilhermino Encarnacao, the director of judicial police in Faro, said the initial drawing of the suspect was not being released to "safeguard the child's life". Officers are understood to have interviewed witnesses who may have seen the abductor.

Encarnacao appealed to the kidnapper for the safe return of the child. "Bring her back just as she is, because you're still in time," he said.

Last night Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, both doctors, appeared for a second time to make a